A consolidated migration profile for Iceland:
who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers.
Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
CapitalReykjavik
RegionEurope
Subregion—
Population392,404
Refugees hosted8,459People protected here
Refugees from here—Fled abroad
Migrants living here98,818Foreign-born stock
Net migration2,709Net inflow
Asylum-seekers660Awaiting a decision
Reporting year2025Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025
Key migration numbers
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
2025Reporting year
8,459Refugees hosted
660Asylum-seekers
2,124Applications (year)
Migration balance
Incoming vs outgoing
Annual estimates
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Net migration (year)2,709Net inflow
Migrants living here98,818Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series
Statistics
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
Population profile
Sex, age, religion & more
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Religion
Religious make-up over time
National shares
Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
Sex
Female46.5%
Male49.7%
Unknown3.8%
Sex
Female44.9%
Male45.3%
Unknown9.8%
Sex
Female11.2%
Male12.8%
Unknown76.0%
Sex
Female21.7%
Male15.1%
Unknown63.2%
Sex
Female2.1%
Male8.6%
Unknown89.3%
Sex
Female1.4%
Male4.5%
Unknown94.1%
Sex
Female31.8%
Male53.3%
Unknown14.9%
Age
0-42.3%
12-175.7%
18-5927.6%
5-113.8%
Sex
Female35.5%
Male57.6%
Unknown6.9%
Age
0-42.3%
12-174.6%
18-5930.0%
5-117.4%
Sex
Female2.4%
Male4.8%
Unknown92.8%
Age
0-42.4%
12-172.4%
5-112.4%
Sex
Female21.9%
Male2.6%
Unknown75.5%
Age
0-42.6%
12-179.2%
18-5910.2%
5-112.6%
Sex
Female19.4%
Male8.3%
Unknown72.3%
Age
0-42.8%
12-1713.9%
18-598.3%
5-112.8%
Country context
National indicators
Economy
GDP (current US$)38,582,528,789.00 USD2025GDP per capita (current US$)98,323.48 USD2025Unemployment (% of labour force)3.63 %2025Personal remittances received (US$)281,525,884.86 USD2025Personal remittances received (% of GDP)0.73 %2025
Returned refugees9.00 people2000Resettlement arrivals5.00 people2025
Other
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)8.98 %2024Life expectancy at birth, total (years)82.81 years2024Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)98.62 %2023Gini index26.80 2019Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)0.10 %2019
Context
Migration & quality of life
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
Economy
Gross domestic product
World Bank
GDP (current US$)
$38.58B
Reported 2025
GDP per capita (current US$)
$98,323
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
Public safety
Recorded crime
Not migrant offending
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.53
Homicide
1.29
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.54
Homicide
1.05
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.55
Homicide
0.54
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.24
Homicide
1.36
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.54
Homicide
0.28
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.58
Homicide
0.85
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.18
Homicide
0.87
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.60
Homicide
0.30
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.80
Homicide
0.91
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.61
Homicide
0.31
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.62
Homicide
0.31
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.63
Homicide
0.31
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.63
Homicide
0.94
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.25
Homicide
0.63
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.62
Homicide
0.31
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.26
Homicide
0.64
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
0.00
Crime
Rate / 100k
2.01
Homicide
1.01
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
1.39
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
0.35
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
1.78
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.72
Homicide
0.72
Crime
Rate / 100k
Homicide
0.74
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.74
Homicide
0.37
Public expenditure
Expenses
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
Year
Amount (USD)
Category
2024
$111,710,000
ODA provided
2023
$110,760,000
ODA provided
2022
$94,380,000
ODA provided
2021
$70,840,000
ODA provided
2020
$57,900,000
ODA provided
2019
$61,420,000
ODA provided
2018
$74,210,000
ODA provided
2017
$68,270,000
ODA provided
2016
$58,720,000
ODA provided
2015
$39,860,000
ODA provided
2014
$37,330,000
ODA provided
2013
$34,910,000
ODA provided
2012
$26,120,000
ODA provided
2011
$25,570,000
ODA provided
2010
$28,750,000
ODA provided
2009
$34,420,000
ODA provided
2008
$48,410,000
ODA provided
2007
$48,250,000
ODA provided
2006
$41,500,000
ODA provided
2005
$27,260,000
ODA provided
2004
$21,260,000
ODA provided
2003
$17,660,000
ODA provided
2002
$12,650,000
ODA provided
2001
$9,730,000
ODA provided
2000
$8,610,000
ODA provided
1999
$7,570,000
ODA provided
1998
$7,150,000
ODA provided
1997
$7,820,000
ODA provided
1994
$6,000,000
ODA provided
1993
$6,700,000
ODA provided
1992
$4,920,000
ODA provided
1991
$8,000,000
ODA provided
1990
$1,880,000
ODA provided
Sources & notes
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.
